Editing Douglas Lain

{{short description|American novelist}}
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'''Douglas Lain''' ({{IPAc-en|l|eɪ|n}}; born 1970) is an American writer whose books include the post-[[Technological singularity|singularity]] novel ''Bash Bash Revolution'' from Night Shade Books, the [[magical realist]] novel ''Billy Moon'' from [[Tor Books]], and the [[Philip K. Dick Award]] nominated novel ''After the Saucers Landed.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bash Bash Revolution |url=https://nightshade.start-publishing.com/book/2778/bash-bash-revolution/ |access-date=2022-07-19 |website=Night Shade Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=SupaduDev |title=Billy Moon |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781429948074/billymoon |access-date=2022-07-19 |website=Macmillan |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Philip K. Dick Award |url=https://www.philipkdickaward.org/ |access-date=2022-07-19 |website=Philip K. Dick Award}}</ref>

His short stories have appeared in genre magazines such as ''[[Interzone (magazine)|Interzone]]'' and ''[[Amazing Stories]]'' as well as in online publications such as ''Pif Magazine'' and ''[[Strange Horizons]]''. He has written nonfiction as well as fiction and is a blogger for ''[[Thought Catalog]]'' and ''[[The Partially Examined Life]]''. Lain's fiction has been generally well received by critics in journals and periodicals such as ''[[Locus Magazine]]'' (Rich Horton// Locus Magazine; January 2012, Issue 612, Vol. 68 No. 1), ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' (Olson, Ray // Publishers Weekly; 19 December 2005, Vol. 252 Issue 50, p 46), and ''[[Rain Taxi]]'' magazine (Dole, Kevin//Rain Taxi; Vol. 11 No. 2, Summer 2006, #42).

Lain was the host of the philosophy podcast "Diet Soap" and the political podcast "Zero Squared". He was the publishing manager in charge of [[Zero Books]] from 2015 to October 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.zero-books.net/authors/douglas-lain|title=Douglas  Lain {{!}}{{!}} Zero Books {{!}}{{!}} Author Profile|website=zero-books.net|language=en|access-date=2018-04-19}}</ref> Following his departure from Zero Books, Lain joined the creative team at Sublation Media.<ref>{{Cite web |title=about |url=https://www.sublationmedia.com/about |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=Sublation Media |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=team |url=https://www.sublationmedia.com/team |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=Sublation Media |language=en}}</ref>

He lives in [[Portland, Oregon]].

==Bibliography==

===Novels===
*''Bash Bash Revolution'', [[Night Shade Books]] (2018)
*''After the Saucers Landed'', [[Night Shade Books]] (2015)
*''Billy Moon'', [[Tor Books]] (2013)

===Novella===
*"Wave of Mutilation", Fantastic Planet Press (2011)

===Nonfiction===
*Pick Your Battle, Funded through Kickstarter (2011)

===Short story collections===
*''Fall into Time'', Eraserhead Press (2011)
*''Last Week's Apocalypse'', Night Shade Books (2006)

===Multiple author anthologies (editor)===
* ''Deserts of Fire: Speculative Fiction and the Modern War, [[Night Shade Books]]'' (2016)
* ''In the Shadow of the Towers: Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World'', [[Night Shade Books]] (2015)

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2006/02/last_week.shtml Review of Last Week's Apocalypse] at "[[Strange Horizons]]", 20 February 2006.
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